Posted by Matthew Ryan, Last modified by Zak Devlin on 11 October 2017 10:22 AM

Pre migration steps

1) Ensure the current implementation using the internal database is functioning correctly with no reported issues.

2) Backup Papercut from the admin console | Options Tab | Backup Tab | Export Now button. Rename backup to export.zip , this avoids typo's in later steps then copy it to the root of C drive E.G C:\export.zip for simplicity in later steps. You can find the backup in the "./papercut mf/server/data/backups/" folder

Migration process

1) Stop Papercut services on the server

2) Open the file./papercut MF/server/server.properties. This file contains your database connection settings, and admin password, etc. Update the file appropriately by remarking out the internal DB and unremarking the external DB such as SQL. You will need to add the SQL server name and database name, the sql username and password for this database.